The Author

Michael J. Cavallaro was born in New Hyde Park, New York, during the summer of 1975. After spending two years living in Queens, his parents relocated to Long Island where he spent the better part of his childhood growing up. Encouraged by teachers to develop as a writer, he began penning stories at the age of twelve and cites novelists like Isaac Asimov and Ray Bradbury among his early influences. As an active journalist for his high school newspaper, it was at this time that his work also began to appear in local publications.

In 1993 he attended Villanova University as a freshman and joined a writer's group while the editor of Polis published his short stories and poetry regularly. In 1997, having earned a degree in English and Education, he went to work as a staff writer for one of the largest public relations firms on Long Island. There, he worked with several major broadcasting stations, including NBC, and was published regularly in the educational section of New York Newsday.

Based on his work as a staff writer, he then was hired by HarperCollins Publishers in Manhattan some three years later. As an editor for the world's third largest publishing company, Michael had the opportunity to edit some of the world's greatest writers, including the works of Joyce Carol Oates and Clive Barker. He was also part of the editing team that launched popular newcomers such as Lemony Snicket's Series of Unfortunate Events, as well as the mass-market collaboration with Universal Studios on the worldwide release of Spider Man.

In 2003, he left the publishing industry for more lucrative opportunities as a freelance writer for corporate America. It was then that he found time to begin working on what eventually became his most ambitious work to date. Having spent his mid-twenties traveling the world, it was the high-tech country of Japan that left an indelible mark. From a land that inspired science fiction writer William Gibson to create an entirely new genre, Michael began writing Cybernetica-a science fiction novel that further explores the very notions of social control brought on by George Orwell's legendary 1984, and that of Ted Kaczynski's disquieting Unabomber Manifesto.

As a child of the 1980's, Michael's fascination with science fiction is rooted in the very culture now retrofitting it's way back to the public some twenty years later. But as a fan of many different genres, his work draws influence from both literary and mainstream. Cybernetica is his first novel.

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